the blurb and Look Inside also have readability issues
Zsuzsa
1 year ago
Check the couch cushions first.
If you have kids, you might also check inside the covers to the throw pillows. That’s where our daughter hid the stuffed animal that she cried about losing for three weeks.
Syd
1 year ago
Craiyon exists. For that matter Canva also now has a text-to-image generator.
this is a little bit Craiyon and a little bit me. It’s a free program but it’s not very smart so I need to use two prompts, one for the stone circle image and one for the sword, and had to use two generations of the sword image to get a useful hilt with a gem in the hilt (the “jewel of power” according to the Look Inside). And then I used a star/space overlay from my toolkit and a LUT to help with the colour.
It didn’t save any time over doing a regular photo manip, but if you use a more sophistication image from text generator like Midjourney and have no photo manip skills whatsoever, it’s definitely an option for book covers.
I only found the generator on Canva after making this, and I tried to get a futuristic apartment building in a green sustainable future and I still needed to generated pics to get what I had in mind. I’m picky, granted, but if an author feels like the posted cover is FINE, Canva and Craiyon both could make something that is at least a unified piece of art.
Craiyon in particular lets you generate as many images as you want for free so you can tweak your text, or just challenge it to use the same text over and over until the image bears some resemblance to the text.
I also tried Stable Diffusion for the sword image but I only got something that looked vaguely like a sword when I grew frustrated and used “how can you not know what a sword looks like” as the prompt, lol. Stick with Craiyon!
the blurb and Look Inside also have readability issues
Check the couch cushions first.
If you have kids, you might also check inside the covers to the throw pillows. That’s where our daughter hid the stuffed animal that she cried about losing for three weeks.
Craiyon exists. For that matter Canva also now has a text-to-image generator.
So, Syd, is this something from your fevered brain? Via Canva or…?
this is a little bit Craiyon and a little bit me. It’s a free program but it’s not very smart so I need to use two prompts, one for the stone circle image and one for the sword, and had to use two generations of the sword image to get a useful hilt with a gem in the hilt (the “jewel of power” according to the Look Inside). And then I used a star/space overlay from my toolkit and a LUT to help with the colour.
It didn’t save any time over doing a regular photo manip, but if you use a more sophistication image from text generator like Midjourney and have no photo manip skills whatsoever, it’s definitely an option for book covers.
I only found the generator on Canva after making this, and I tried to get a futuristic apartment building in a green sustainable future and I still needed to generated pics to get what I had in mind. I’m picky, granted, but if an author feels like the posted cover is FINE, Canva and Craiyon both could make something that is at least a unified piece of art.
Craiyon in particular lets you generate as many images as you want for free so you can tweak your text, or just challenge it to use the same text over and over until the image bears some resemblance to the text.
I also tried Stable Diffusion for the sword image but I only got something that looked vaguely like a sword when I grew frustrated and used “how can you not know what a sword looks like” as the prompt, lol. Stick with Craiyon!
Canva vs. Craiyon re: eco apartment
Ah, thanks for sharing! That was very interesting.